“Apple Inc and Facebook Inc will help pay for female employees to freeze their eggs, signaling a willingness to spend enormous sums on perks and benefits in a race to acquire top-flight talent,” Christina Farr reports for Reuters.
“From January, Apple will pay both full- and part-time employees up to $20,000 for procedure and storage costs for female employees to freeze their eggs,” Farr reports. “‘We continue to expand our benefits for women, with a new extended maternity leave policy, along with cryopreservation and egg storage as part of our extensive support for infertility treatments,’ Apple said in a statement. ‘We want to empower women at Apple to do the best work of their lives as they care for loved ones and raise their families.'”
Farr reports, “Apple recently introduced new benefits including extended parental leave.”
Read more in the full article here.
Saturday was so cold here in Canada that I froze my nuts. Does that count?
Isn’t the term “in Canada” and “so cold here” synonymous?
Vancouver is rarely below 32 degrees F (0 C) and the central US is most often colder that the East or West Coast of Canada. Check the isotherms on a map next time you care to get educated.
Nope. My brother lives in San Jose, California, where his wife has lived all her life, and when they visited in July she complained it was too hot here (over 90°F) 😀
To be fair, when they last visited two Januaries ago she complained it was too cold (about -20°F).
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Board member Al “Global Warming” Gore was only dissenting vote on the new corporate policy.
Al noted, “I thaw this coming and didn’t want egg on my face when the vote was ova.”
Eugenics.
pretty much…I’m speculating that the corporate policy will allow thawing and fertilization of the frozen eggs upon retirement…how thoughtful: a mom that’s 65 years old.
“Thanks Apple, you can’t know how wonderful it was, at least, to have Mom there at my graduation…
from kindergarten.”
hugs & kisses,
Another Thawed Egg
You know something’s wrong when botvinnik is the one guy agreeing with you.
Apple is trying to “harvest” future Apple Store Geniuses… 😊
Geez, trolls,
Give it a rest.
This is a brilliant idea. Well done, Apple.
It’s part of Apple’s infertility coverage, which most companies won’t touch as a benefit. Kudos to Apple.
Hand it to Facebook as well, except I wouldn’t put it past young Zuckerberg to have invented some kind of dodge where data about the unborn shows up in the form of an ad or a contest, say, or a game about naming babies. These characters cannot be trusted, the whole world is their collection of selfies.
I prefer fresh, not previously frozen.
😉
Saw whatcha did there
Buster,
I laughed out loud when I read your comment. Good one!
Because seven billion people aren’t enough.
But you don’t mind being here, do you?
This story was on ABC news tonight. But, before this story ran ABC told the country that there would be much lower gasoline prices and the average household would save $350 on heating oil. The next story was Apple and the eggs and soon after the national news ran a piece about how the police used the Find My iPhone feature to track down a missing woman. Apparently, the woman drove off a cliff and search and rescue couldn’t find her, but the iPhone feature honed in on her exact location. This means Apple products saved a woman’s life and all the folks saving hundreds of dollars on oil products can use this new found wealth to purchase new iPads and iPhones!
Welcome to Apple! We are pleased to have you on our team. Through your hiring process, you should have learned that you will be unable participate in any form of social activities, as you are expected to focus solely on your work here at Apple, while you are awake, until the time if your retirement, after which you may consider beginning a family. For your benefit, we provide long term storage of your genetic material to assist you. Thanks again for joining our team. Now go invent something.
This is chilling news.
What’s so chilling about people being able to plan when they would like to have their children conceived and born?
Yeah, and in response, Chick-fil-A will pay women to freeze their breasts and thighs.
What about a female spouse of an employee? Do they count?
The focus seems to be to delay child rearing and get more production out of younger employees and to avoid having to rehire older employees who took of maternity leave. Some women won’t be able to conceive after they are older and will just continue to work. It seems insidious.
I would presume that a female spouse of an employee can ask for those benefits from her own employer. If we look at it from a practical point of view, this is really more of a job benefit than a health benefit — it allows the employee to postpone child-bearing until precisely the moment she is ready for it. With high-stress jobs and less-than-healthy lifestyles, a large percentage of today’s urban population has diminished fertility, where conceiving often becomes a challenge that sometimes takes a few years of constant and persistent effort to overcome. With the ability to conceive in vitro on demand, planning one’s life becomes much more predictable. The employer gets a female employee who can plan her pregnancy and child birth right around the seasonal rush (or around the development cycle of an application), making her much more efficient at her job (and much happier for being able to better juggle family and job).
Providing such benefit for a spouse of a staff member doesn’t really significantly change the productivity of that staff member (paternity leave is still rather short and generally much more flexible anyway).
The focus is infertility. A genuine health concern. A woman who is facing Chemo or surgery might want to undergo the procedure. I do not believe ‘convenience’ is the focus of this policy.
A friend of mine has twins who were born three years apart. The eggs were harvested at the same time, one was fertilized (in vitro), the other frozen (and fertilized three years later). The kids are now in high school and, had there not been for this option, the couple would have been childless.
The ability to precisely decide when you want to have children is extremely valuable to professionals with demanding jobs. This may be the only thing that would allow them to actually have children. Family planning is becoming an increasingly critical factor for urban, high-stress professionals to even allow them to consider having children. I am not surprised that Apple chose to provide this for their female staff.
Apple will go any lengths under Tim Cook to promote the leftist agenda. This cost will be passed on to all of us. Tim Cook has to go.
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What is leftist about infertility and family planning???